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What have I changed my mind about?
The Edge have this year an interesting question as it’s Annual Edge question: What have you changed your mind about? Why? I happened to stumble upon Kevin Kelly’s contribution on Technium, his blog. He...
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What is all this blocking of blog access?
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Volvo IT and how they blocked blogs and other sites mentioning social software. Particularly it was sites that happened to have “typepad” or “blogspot” in their...
View ArticleLIFT08: Future and Asia
One of the highlights of LIFT08 was the Asia track. First on stage was Marc Laperrouza who talked about the telecommunication situation in China. To summarize what I thought was most interesting...
View ArticleHow much does national political governance matter?
Many of you readers know that I am skeptical to to future of traditional hierarchies. I believe the huge change that is happening now (again) is that new communications technology is simply creating...
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Timeouts instead of bailouts?
One major challenge with the failing global financial markets is that the amygdala is directly connected to the economic system. This means that individual feelings of billions of people around the...
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Mumbai attacks – the systems learning perspective
One major strength with humanity is that every time the current system is being threatened it is learning something. Some of us argue that we should be using our relatively recent develop pre-frontal...
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What can we learn from Asimov’s Foundation trilogy?
The other weekend I reread Asimov‘s Foundation trilogy, one of the brilliant books that might have influenced me to work within the area of foresight. In these times it might be appropriate to use one...
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Why is there a decline of healthy lifestyle?
Today FuturePundit reports about the decline in healthy life style in the US. Investigators from the Department of Family Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston compared the results...
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Sarkozy is misinterpreting the Internet revolution completely
Mr Sarkozy has now taken the battle of the Internet to the next level of open conflict between governments and the Internet by initiating the e-G8 meeting where he argued: “The universe you represent...
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Welcome to the transition society
On October 11 Thomas L. Friedman, author of widely selling books like The Lexus and the Olive Tree, The World Is Flat and Hot, Flat, and Crowded as well as a NY Times columnist wrote a massively...
View ArticleNational Intelligence Council futures report: Paradox of Progress
Only days before(!) Donald Trump is inaugurated as POTUS the US Nation Intelligence Council released a public report on the future which underlines their views of the uncertainties which will shape the...
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